SIX-DAY SPEECH
Mustapha Kemal, the Turkish dictator, is “a strong, silent man.” Yet he once made one of the longest speeches in history. In his new book “The Making of Modern Turkey,” Sir Harry Luke recalls this interesting fact. Addressing the Grand National Assembly at Angora, in order to present the balance sheet of the Nationalist Party, Mustapha Kernel began to speak on the morning of Sunday, October 16, 1927. Speaking daily for seven hours on each of the ensuing days, he concluded his address on the evening of the following Friday. “It was a feat of endurance no less physical than mental.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3894, 26 April 1937, Page 6
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